How to Use flak jacket in a Sentence

flak jacket

noun
  • Levin’s cell phone, helmet, flak jacket, and shoes were never found.
    — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Don't go to a school board meeting without a flak jacket and your head on a swivel.
    — W. Kamau Bell, CNN, 8 July 2022
  • The go-to perks for this class are tactical mask, flak jacket and ninja.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Their military green outfits and flak jackets blend in with the light brown cliffs.
    — Anna Pujol-Mazzini, Time, 18 June 2019
  • Each is issued with a helmet, flak jacket and three-foot baton.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • The guys are used as guinea pigs for flak jackets in another episode, with unusual results.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • At times, the Marines would use their own flak jackets to cover their comrade from incoming fire.
    — Danielle Rossingh, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • Which is exactly what the owners want from their expensive flak jacket.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Air crew wore 'flak jackets' with metal plates sewn into them for protection from shrapnel and these saved many lives.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2019
  • The Packers running back suited up in full flak jacket for the week's final practice.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Montgomery could possibly wear a flak jacket, but ribs can be hurt with motion/twisting, not just by direct blow.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Kyagulanyi moves about in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket.
    — Charles Onyango-Obbo, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • At least one priest holds up to five masses each Sunday, strapping on a flak jacket and driving the sacrament from church to church.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • Donning a helmet and flak jacket, Zelensky led his troops through the trenches, running to avoid sniper fire.
    — The Editors, National Review, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Many of them were sent to the front line wearing sneakers and without flak jackets and helmets, let alone rifles and ammunition.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Cutler wearing a flak jacket or the Dolphins hoping to keep him from getting hit would not solve all potential issues.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Shotzzy uses a tactical mask or flak jacket for his first slot and lives on Ninja for the third slot — the second perk has underwhelming options.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
  • As Captain Ball walked into the crowd, still talking, Corporal Lopez put his hand on his flak jacket.
    — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The visuals also tend to be stacked against the government — flak jackets and Humvees versus moms in jeans shielding their screaming children.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Nearby, National Guard troops wearing flak jackets and carrying rifles slung across their backs walked in and out of the station.
    — Juan Carlos Hernandez, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This included numerous piles of ammunition, rifles, a bayonet, a sword, knives, and a flak jacket.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The heavy booms elicited no reaction from Natalia Havrilenko, who was wearing a green camouflage flak jacket over a pink and blue puffer jacket.
    — Michael Schwirtz Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On the flight back from Poland, a woman from Texas saw the service patches on Graham’s flak jacket and struck up conversation.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2022
  • As McDaniel mentioned, Achane did in fact don the red jersey as well as a flak jacket during Thursday’s practice.
    — Miami Herald, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In the textile market these police officers sit in every booth and stall, selling things; their helmets and flak jackets, which are uncomfortable, are often doffed.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • They were given a list of necessities to rustle up — basically, everything except his flak jacket and helmet.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The army said that because no soldiers were hurt that day, the gunmen might have been referring to Abu Akleh, who was wearing a protective helmet and flak jacket.
    — Josef Federman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2022
  • And in a warehouse on a shabby industrial site in town, flak jackets, helmets, flashlights, mattresses and blankets are among equipment meticulously boxed up and ready.
    — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The vest that the detective wore, known as a plate carrier, is similar to a flak jacket and is the heavier duty option of the vests available to the force, according to Luciano.
    — David Shortell and Amanda Jackson, CNN, 4 June 2019
  • Frequent deaths and injuries meant that turnover in the field was constant; when Maranto arrived at Hotel Company, he was issued a flak jacket that had dried blood on it.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 15 May 2018

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